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CRIMES (DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE) ACT 2007 - SECT 77 Service of copy of apprehended violence order, interim court order or variation or revocation of any such order

CRIMES (DOMESTIC AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE) ACT 2007 - SECT 77

Service of copy of apprehended violence order, interim court order or variation or revocation of any such order

77 Service of copy of apprehended violence order, interim court order or variation or revocation of any such order

(1) The Registrar of a court that makes a final apprehended violence order or interim court order is to prepare a written copy of the order.
(2) The Registrar of a court that varies or revokes a final apprehended violence order or interim court order is to prepare a written record of the variation or revocation.
(3) The Registrar of the court is to serve a copy of the order or of the record of the variation or revocation of the order personally on the defendant if the defendant is present in court.
(4) If the defendant is not present at the time the order is made, the Registrar is to arrange for a copy of the order or the record of the variation or revocation to be served personally on the defendant by a police officer or such other person as the Registrar thinks fit.
(5) If the defendant is present at the time the order is made but the Registrar is unable to serve a copy of the order or the written record of the variation or revocation personally on the defendant, the Registrar is to arrange for a copy of the order or record to be sent by post to the defendant or to such other person as the Registrar thinks fit.
(6) Service on the defendant of the copy of the order or record concerned may be effected in such other manner as the court directs.
(7) The Registrar of the court is to cause a copy of the order or record, and a copy of any application for an order or variation or revocation, to be forwarded to the Commissioner of Police and (unless it is impracticable or unnecessary to do so) to be given to or sent by post to each protected person.
(8) The Commissioner of Police is to make a record of the details of the material forwarded to the Commissioner under this section and is to retain that record for at least 10 years after the order to which it relates ceases to be in force.